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Three men who appeared in court yesterday for a farm attack in Nqanqarhu (Maclear) will now be charged with murder. This follows the death of 74-year-old Francis Davidson who was brutally assaulted on his farm in April this year.

Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality said Executive Mayor Gary van Niekerk held cordial talks with the local Business Chamber following “exhausting walkabouts in wards 31 and 37 to identify and address service delivery concerns of the residents.”

A farmer who was brutally attacked during a robbery in Nqanqarhu (Maclear) in April has died.

Police in Gqeberha have launched a manhunt for three armed men who robbed a man outside a bank in Newton Park on Tuesday. Spokesperson Colonel Priscilla Naidu says a 51-year-old man had just exited the bank after 9 am when he was accosted by the suspects.

A Gqeberha accountant's appeal against his refusal of bail has been dismissed in the High Court. Fifty-one-year-old Jonathan Blow is accused of stealing over R40 million from Sunridge Spar as well as R11 million from a franchise in Despatch.

A homeless person who was kicked to death in the streets of Central in Gqeberha is still not identified. The man, believed to be in his fifties was attacked last week while sleeping with other vagrants in front of a fast food outlet in Rink Street.

A 27-year-old man caught digging up cables at the N2 on ramp at Baywest in Gqeberha is behind bars thanks to the sterling work of K9 Bentley.

Two suspects have appeared in a Gqeberha court in connection with a recent brutal crime spree that left an Atlas security officer hospitalised, another man fatally wounded and a third shot in the buttocks.

The Hawks in the Eastern Cape are seeking information on three apartheid-era death in detention cases that are currently being investigated.